On October 21st, 2026, the PHP project released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. We warned site owners before the fixes became…
Overview Two critical memory-related vulnerabilities have been identified in PHP versions prior to 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, and 8.5.12. An unauthenticated remote attacker with network access to PHP…
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities sent criminal forum operators scrambling to protect their own infrastructure, revealing that threat actors face the same exposure management challenges as the…
Disclaimer: This article is not a primer on how the CVEs (CVE-2026-109618/CVE-2026-109619) work. For that, see our PHP2Shell technical advisory. “We don’t use PHP” may describe your development…
SOCRadar Threat Intelligence Unit (STRU) researchers found PHP2Shell exploit tooling on an attacker-controlled server whose working directory was exposed through an open, unauthenticated directory…
AWS detected PHP2Shell exploit attempts four days before disclosure, highlighting the risk of attackers exploiting critical flaws before patches arrive. Attackers attempted to exploit two critical…
PHP maintainers have released two critical vulnerabilities: PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. All PHP users…
The layer your code scans don’t seeYou already verify the code you write and the dependencies you import in SonarQube. The images you ship add another layer: operating system packages, language…
Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code execution bugs patched on…
On October 21, 2026, the PHP project released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to run code through the PHP service handling website…
Splunk is investigating to determine which products may be affected by these vulnerabilities and the impact on each affected product. Currently, no products are known to be affected. This advisory…
IntroductionOn October 21, 2026, two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, collectively referred to as “PHP2Shell,” were publicly disclosed. Both…
Keep Calm and Patch PHP2Shell October 21, 2026 Justin Timothy With contributions by the GuidePoint Security GRIT team BLOG 10 min. How to Respond to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 *Note: This is…
Number: AL26-026 Date: October 21, 2026 Audience This Alert is intended for IT professionals and managers. Purpose An Alert is used to raise awareness of a recently identified cyber threat that may…
On October 21, the PHP Foundation announced the availability of a Critical PHP Security release addressing two critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-109618 - RCE via OOM corruption CVE-2026-109619 - RCE…
The PHP project has released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The…
If you’ve encountered websites in maintenance mode today, it may be a security precaution. Reports of attacks targeting two critical PHP vulnerabilities have prompted warnings to install emergency…
Expect to see quite a few websites serving error pages today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full…